Dearth

It's quite a change to move, even gradually, from dole-claiming scum to full-time professional, so my lack of posts should be excused in this light. Still working staggered slug-watch shifts (four over the next fortnight) as well as daytimes so it's sometimes difficult to separate work, sleep, home and play. So far weekends are still exclusively play and not work, and the last was decadently spent mostly in a dressing gown, catching up on reading. Luckily both the Hellenes (2000 BC) and the Romans (500 BC-200 AD) had written script that gives an insight on their culture and our history.

One of the biggest disappointments this summer has been the conspicuous lack of invertebrate company which enhanced my nightwork last summer. There was a good crop of interloping flowering weeds out-by back this year, but unlike last all I've seen are honey- and bumble-bees, hoverflies, yell0w slugs and slaters. No emerald beetles, bats or hawkmoths, so that obligate nighthawks were quite deprived of entertainment.